In another life...

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...I live in Provence in a gorgeous old farmhouse, which is high spec renovated inside with all mod cons. I float around in casual summer dresses with permanently sun kissed skin and completely hair free on my legs and underarms. I'm an amazing cook. My brood of kids are angelic and I can remember all their names. My hunky toned man is perfect mix of intellectual nerd and sexy beast. I speak fluent french of course and am very knowledgable about wine and cheese. Oh and I can play the guitar! Oh and I have tons of local friends and massive extended family who drop in constantly, which doesn't leave me stressed at all. 😜

I have loads of money and don't need to work but no-one else knows how rich I am. I spend my days sleeping in and my evenings taking photos. I have a lovely, clean, tidy and spacious house with plenty of garden (and a gardener). I also have a houseboat. I don't have children and most of the time I don't have a husband. I am fit and healthy.

I don't work, except for the fact I publish a book once every 2-3 years or so but that's fine because I have a shitload of cash
My skin is beautiful and clear
I love to exercise so a personal trainer knocks on my door every morning at 7(ish) to offer me my training
I have a beautiful house with a gorgeous dressing room, an amazing garden and we obviously have a cleaner. We don't have a nanny, I like to take care of our children myself
We also have a HUGE library in the house, one that needs stairs to get to the upper levels of it.

I'd fantasise more, but gotta go to work😂😂😂

I'm a great deal fitter, can ride a bike and swim well. I also play the piano very competently. My house has no damp patches or gappy floorboards. No-one drops litter on my street, or dumps their half-eaten kebabs, or fails to clean up after their large dog.

Oh, and I sleep through the night, always!

Oh I forgot my library with one of those ladders you can whoosh along on.

I still do the job I do now but it is garners the professional respect it deserves and is paid accordingly. My work colleagues aren't backstabbing bitches with their own agendas.

I work part-time - three days a week with extended holidays that are taken in our vw camper that comfortably sleeps three + two dogs. We wild camp yet eat amazing food around our fire pit and leave places like we were never there. DD is never bored and recalcitrant and is pre-teen full of wonder at nature. (There isnot another human in the vicinity).

My house is tidy yet cosily cluttered with beautiful things and books. It has a equally cosy garden that my Gardiner tends because I kill everything

My DP works from home, actually works rather than procrastinating and causing me financial angst. He makes beautiful things out if wood.

My dad is still alive and my mum isn't in failing health yet refusing to help herself and taking it out on me. She shows an active interest in DD2 and is a proper nan rather than a parody of Catherine tates nanna.

All my dogs are still alive and will never leave me. My DP isn't allergic to cats and I have lots of them that live in harmony with my dogs.

I don't constantly worry about the onset of WW3/IF people like me/whether a slight cold is actually ebola/pneumonia or cancer because all of those bad things don't exist.

My Dd1 is happy and also has a part-time job that she loves, a house with a garden and chickens.

Dd2 continues to be a conscientious hard working girl but without the anxiety prior to tests and dyslexia that means she has to work so much harder.

I don't have a questionable relationship with alcohol and I'm not on max dose ADs that are turning me an obese mess because my life is how I've listed above.

I live in a converted vicarage with enough space for all the dcs to have their own rooms. Neither I nor my dcs are disabled or depressed. I write pithy short stories for a living. DH does his job but it magically becomes family friendly hours. When he is around he doesn't grumble about the dcs and get under my feet - we have meaningful conversations and as we have a cleaner no arguments about housework.
We go on long holidays around Europe by train - without disabilities we'd be able to travel more than 2 hrs away.

I get to shag Zac Efron daily.

Well I don't have fibromyalgia and mental health issues.
That I pushed myself in maths and physics more, got a job in s research lab and collaborated on the discovery of the millennium - interstellar travel.
Now I live on an extra solar world.

I'm on a sleeper train travelling all around the world listening to Joni Mitchell. I fly back frequently to my beautiful villa in the South of France, that has a housekeeper and chef preparing healthy, low fat meals and salads. I swim every day with a hairdresser on standby to do my hair. I read a lot and spend lots of time at the market wearing cool linens and floaty dresses. Friends and family visit often and we spend time eating out, drinking Provence Rose and on the beach. I never have achy joints. Ds has finished education and has his dream techy job and lots of friends. Dh works away but travels with me occasionally.

Every book I write heads to the top of the bestseller list. I am frequently recognised in the street from my appearances on TV, yet am modest and unassuming about the fame (instead of screaming giddily when anyone recognises me). I live in a small country cottage with a paddock at the back, where my collection of Fell ponies graze and occasionally I will ride one of them to the shops, where I am regarded as a loveable eccentric.

My dogs accompany me on these rides, they are well behaved and elegant. I can afford to buy my children homes so they are secure, and I visit them on weekly rotation (on one or other of the ponies).

Oh, and I can eat anything and not put on a pound.

Aw, i am living my "in another life" now

3 years ago i was in a 7 year DV relationship, i was isolated, had anxiety and depression, living in a tiny cramped house not enjoying my children because life was so shit, i hated myself, i couldnt affird nice things because he took all the money everytime, hiding black eyes,

Everything i wanted in a new life, i have received aside from a permenant home ( yet ) im not rich and im still in temporary housing, but i dont hate my life anymore and i dont hate myself. I love myself and im so proud of myself. I have a lovely partner who is lovely to me and the kids, we have nice holidays, we have nice clothes and nice frequent days out, we are all happy

I used to sit at home and think about "in another life" but i dont do that anymore, im happy with what i have got this time round

I divide my time between some tough assignments in the field where I'm doing something deeply meaningful (ending small wars, saving endangered species, making groundbreaking archaeological discoveries) with my beloved comrades, and my small but comfortable homes (the beachfront villa from which I swim in the sea every day, the country cottage where I sit by the fire with the weekend newspapers and take wonderful mountain walks, the city pied a terre which is my base for fabulous restaurant meals and cultural events).

I have several lovers at hand in each of these settings, and although devoted to me, they are unresentful if I am too busy to call on them.

With that life, I don't think I'd worry too much about being fat or thin...I'd obviously be pretty athletic anyway.

I think most of us probably are happy deep down with what we've got, this was obviously just for fun.

Oh Blippolbblopp, I am so glad that you are getting to live your other life. You and your children deserve to be happy and safe.

In my other life I am either Meryl Streep's character in It's Complicated (but without the affair with Steve Martin - bleurgh!)

OR Diane Keaton in Something's Gotta Give

Both have dream houses and careers!

I love this game!

In my other life, I am a recently retired professional tennis player. I won all the grand slams and am now spending my millions of prize money in my collection of holiday homes. I speak fluent Spanish, am three stone lighter but still have the same DH and kids.

I never did a degree but went to tailoring college and then worked in Savile Row. I now run a successful dressmaking business and love my job. I'm mentally stable and optimistic, not constantly on the verge of breakdown. I live in a nice 3-bed terrace/flat in the centre of town with no mortgage.

I really like my life, pretty much as it is but in another life...

I don’t work and live in a huge house overlooking the sea, like the one in Big Little Lies
here . I live mostly in Devon, with dh, who doesn’t work either as we have so much money we don’t need to. We have a full time housekeeper, chef and driver as we don’t want to cook, clean or drive anywhere. We also have a huge penthouse in London and another huge penthouse in NYC. We own both a helicopter and a private jet. Our children are happy and have moved out but visit us often. We spend our time visiting friends, going to art galleries and museums and visiting interesting places in the world, always first class and sometimes with the children. We give a lot of money to charity. We have several dogs, cats, horses and chickens but don’t really have to look after any of them as the staff do that. I am thin and fit but effortlessly so! We also attend film premieres and see quite a lot of live comedy and some theatre.

I live in a cottage (not a tiny one, big enough for 4 of us to live in without killing each other!) with a big sunny kitchen, a bigger sunny living room, and a pantry. Also a cellar, if that isn't too greedy.

We have 10 acres of land. A stream runs through it, with one spot just deep enough to dunk ourselves in in the summer. We have a big veggie garden and a flock of chickens. We raise a couple of pigs each year for meat. We have a dairy cow and her calf, which will be tasty roasts and burgers. We have 3 or so sheep. 5 of the 10 acres are wooded and we manage that for firewood.

We have a barn for the animals when necessary, and a big workshop for DIY projects. A spare wing of the barn works beautifully for parties, with a big chunky table running down the middle and fairy lights.

Basically River Cottage with bigger, sunnier rooms. And right in the edge of a village so the kids could walk to places.

Oh, and we don't have to have jobs outside the smallholding, so we can just potter there all day.

I live in a country house with a rambling garden, I work as a sculptor and have an extensive collection so open up the gardens to the public often, I travel the world and get invited to do all kinds of things.

No idea where that came from, I have never done any sculpting!